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- LETTERS, Page 9Roman Catholics at Auschwitz
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- It is regrettable that Poland's Franciszek Cardinal
- Macharski reneged on his promise to move the Carmelite nuns from
- their convent at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp
- (RELIGION, Aug. 21). I believe the nuns do not belong there.
- Although it is true that Christians perished at the camp, the
- plan to eliminate all the Jewish people was so horrendous that
- the sisters should show more sensitivity to the memory of the
- 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. These men, women and
- children were put to death not because they practiced a
- religious life but because they were born Jewish.
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- Marilyn Shustak Cranbury, N.J.
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- Hundreds of thousands of Poles died at Auschwitz, including
- many priests and nuns. To force the Carmelite nuns to leave
- their convent outside the barbed-wire perimeter of Auschwitz,
- where they pray for all the Nazi victims, is to rewrite history.
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- Linda Ty-Casper Saxonville, Mass.
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